Manager, Engineering - Mobile Applications

What You’ll Do

• Hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team of mobile engineers delivering iOS and Android applications built with React Native, aligned to both short‑ and long‑term business goals.
• Own delivery and operational excellence for consumer‑facing and internal mobile applications, with accountability for reliability, performance, security, and user experience.
• Guide the team across the full mobile application lifecycle, from ideation and design through development, testing, release, and ongoing support.
• Mature Mobile Dev Sec Ops  practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, secure code scanning, and app store release automation.
• Champion modern mobile engineering practices such as component‑based architecture, automated testing, configuration as code, and consistent release processes to improve quality and time to market.
• Lead with a strong customer focus, ensuring mobile experiences are intuitive, accessible, performant, and aligned to user needs across platforms.
• Drive data‑driven culture using mobile telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, and operational metrics.
• Partner closely with Product, UX, Solution Architecture, Security, Platform, and Operations teams to align priorities and deliver outcomes.
• Identify and execute technical priorities including platform upgrades, dependency management, OS compatibility, and technical debt reduction.
• Act as a technical and business leader, contributing to vendor selection, RFPs, and vendor management related to mobile platforms and tooling.
• Ensure adherence to Premera’s Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile practices, and engineering standards, with a strong emphasis on security, privacy, and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance and, when necessary, participate in sprint activities to unblock the team with pull request reviews, comments, suggestions, and engineering decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or 4 years of equivalent experience in information technology.
• 6+ years of experience in application development or engineering, including prior team or program leadership experience.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, and developing high‑performing engineering teams.

• Hands‑on experience delivering mobile applications using React Native.
• Production experience building and supporting iOS and Android applications, including app store publishing and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with JavaScript/Type Script, mobile architecture patterns, and state management.
• Experience integrating mobile applications with backend APIs and cloud‑based services.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud acceptable).
• Familiarity with mobile CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and release management.
• Experience working in large‑scale, regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience partnering with security, architecture, and infrastructure teams.

• Deep expertise in mobile application architecture, including React Native, performance optimization, and cross‑platform tradeoffs, having successfully launched applications on both iOS and Android stores.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating applications in cloud and hybrid environments, leveraging public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google) and modern hosting models (PaaS, IaaS, containers).
• Strong understanding of Dev Sec Ops  practices, with experience implementing CI/CD and secure delivery pipelines.
• Proven ability to use metrics and analytics to inform technical decisions and drive business outcomes.
• Experience delivering customer‑centric products in an Agile environment, partnering closely with product, UX, solution architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in planning, prioritization, and execution, balancing workloads while delivering high‑quality results.
• Proven capability to manage budgets, vendors, and partners effectively.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, able to operate across teams and at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build,…